It's absurd that Presidents aren't read-in or -out of secure info!

[intrepidity]

I mean, I can't *possibly* imagine a hostile foreign power manipulating an American election in order to install a friendly, then just sitting back and waiting for the data drops, can you?

Congress must close this horrific loophole now! Let's see who votes against that bill! grrrrrrrr

From the WaPo:

Trump’s secret papers and the ‘myth’ of presidential security clearance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/25/trump-classified-legal/

Typically, when a person gets access to restricted information, they are “read in” — a process that includes signing documents at the outset in which they acknowledge the legal requirements not to share information on sensitive programs with unauthorized people or keep classified documents in unauthorized places. When they leave such jobs, they are “read out,” again acknowledging in writing their legal responsibilities and declaring that they do not have any classified documents in their possession.
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Said Priess: “There’s a myth out there that presidents have a formal security clearance. They don’t.”

The “commander in chief has the ability to classify or declassify documents,” Priess said, by virtue of having been elected president by the American people. “A former president might receive access to limited classified material after leaving office to assist with writing memoirs or at the discretion of the current president, but a formal security clearance isn’t involved.”
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But Trump, like his predecessors, apparently did not sign such paperwork, which could have legal significance for how prosecutors view his case.